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Find a beautiful song in YouTube, and want to download and convert the YouTube music video to MP3 for putting it on your iPod Touch or other devices? Want to extract MP3 file from a YouTube lecture video? YouTubers often need to convert YouTube video to MP3 audio for a variety of reasons. But to get what they want, they have to ask for help from third parties, may be online websites, browser add-ons or standalone desktop programs. It’s easy to find a method, and even a free one. However, we always encounter unexpected problems. Following quotes are typical examples.

“I need to convert some YouTube files. Problem is, I don’t know a trustworthy site. I’ve used vidtomp3 in the past but ended up with a Trojan that was hell to get rid of, despite never clicking on the ads. So does anyone know a trustworthy site?”

“I’ve been using the site video2mp3, but my antivirus has been blocking Trojan horses from the popups that keep coming up. Anyone know of a better one?”

“youtube-mp3.org looks safe to me, except the ads, they are so intrusive. I think there are a lot of kids around there that just click the ringtone maker button and get stuck with a monthly payment of €16.”

Online Free YouTube to MP3 Converters May Be Unsafe

According to users’ feedback and our testing, we find that many online YouTube to MP3 converters claimed free and safe don’t work as advertised. Their interfaces are always filled with disturbing ads, popups, banners which are unsafe for work and kids. Some ads are even bundled with adware, malware, virus, Trojan and other unfriendly stuff. Even if you never hit it, your computer may be attacked. Besides, some online YouTube to MP3 converters put several Download buttons in a page, which makes users unable to pick out the right one to enable YouTube to MP3 download and conversion.

Legitimacy of YouTube to MP3 is controversial. In technical terms, YouTube to MP3 conversion websites just help change the format from video to audio. From this perspective, it isn’t illegal. While for musicians, it is believed as an act of infringing copyright and will reduce their revenues dramatically. Therefore, YouTube to MP3 sites (e.g. youtube-mp3.org) are unstable and may be forced to shut down all of a sudden.

Which Method is Free, Safe, Stable and Fast?

As mentioned above, online YouTube to MP3 converters always come with ads, viruses, and the like. If you don’t want to get your computer in trouble, you’d better switch to a great desktop program, for example WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe. This tool allows you to free download and convert YouTube videos to MP3 at one go. It is free from any adware, malware, virus and others, which can be proved by famous software download sites like CNET and Softonic. Another feature different from online services is that it will never be taken down. Last but not the least advantage is fast YouTube to MP3 conversion speed, because of the world’s most advanced Intel QSV, MMX-SSE, Nvidia CUDA/NVENC, Hyper-threading and AMD 3DNow! Technologies applied.

How to Free Download and Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Safely?

Above all, free download and install WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe or its Mac version onto your computer. Then launch it the moment you want to get mp3 from a YouTube video. Below is the start-to-finish guide.

Step 1. Click “YouTube URL” in the top tool bar.

Step 2. Paste the URL of target YouTube video into the text field and tap “Analyze” button. Alternatively, hit “Paste & Analyze” button to insert and analyze URL without a break. Seconds later, a list of available output options will be displayed. Simply choose your desired one. Then, make sure “Auto convert” button is ticked and click “OK” to move on.

Step 4. Hit “RUN” at the bottom right to begin converting YouTube URL to MP3. (Note: free-trial version is available to free download YouTube videos of any length, but can only convert YouTube videos to MP3 within 5 minutes. Thankfully, it is enough to deal with virtually all music videos.)

YouTube to 3GP is indeed in high demand at present. We can easily discover lots of questions about how to download YouTube videos in 3GP format on Quora, Yahoo Answers and the similar. Although solutions are all over the internet, some people still seek for a perfect method to meet all the needs like simple work, high quality of resulting 3GP file and so on. In this article, we will lead you to easily download and convert YouTube videos to 3GP with original quality.

What Is YouTube?

Everybody is familiar with YouTube, the biggest video-sharing site gathering almost all sorts of video types on this site, music, movies, sports, news, gaming and even 3D, virtual reality, 360 videos. Besides, live streams are open to all YouTube visitors telling what’s showing right now. We can easily explore videos via channel, search keywords and free watch them online. A registered user has more rights, to upload, create channel/playlist, subscribe uploaders, thumb up and comment a video. Till 2016, YouTube gets 300 hours of uploaded videos, 5 billion watched videos per day and attracts 1 billion users.

What Is 3GP?

3GP is a multimedia container format storing videos MPEG-4 Part 2, H.263 or MPEG-4 Part 10, audios AMR-NB/WB/WB+, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1/v2 and 3GP Timed Text. It is designed for 3G phones so that most 3G capable mobiles can play and record 3GP videos. Players like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, VLC can support 3GP as well. Because of small size, 3GP becomes a popular format for mobile phones, MP4 players. On the other hand, it delivers low resolution and has bad compatibility with new devices.

Why We Need to Convert YouTube to 3GP?

Compared with watching YouTube videos online, some people prefer to download favorite ones for skipping ads, cutting loading time and getting smooth playback on subway, bus, train and other places without Wi-Fi. Generally speaking, the higher quality YouTube video is, the bigger size it will be. It is a good choice to convert and compress YouTube to small-sized 3GP file to save space on a compatible mobile phone.

How to Convert YouTube to 3GP?

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is an all-in-one YouTube downloader and converter available to download any video from YouTube and convert to 3GP or other general formats, like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV etc. It has a modern and clean design helping users to fully understand how to perform the operation without guesswork. Advanced technologies, like Hyper-threading tech, Multi-core CPU and Hardware Encoder (Intel QSV, Nvidia CUDA/NVENC) support, brings a supreme fast download and convert speed. High Quality Engine guarantees vivid images and hi-fi audio of output file. And, tech-savvy users can set specific parameter values for video/audio to get a better playback effect on particular devices.

Step 1. Open WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe and click YouTube URL, the second button on the left of navigation bar.

Step 2. Open YouTube and search for the video you want to convert to 3GP. Copy and paste its URL to address bar of the pop-up window in WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe. Click Analyze button to access to video info, including title, duration and a list of video versions varying from resolution, size, format and code. Select one version and click OK.

Tip: Auto convert option is checked by default. If there is a 3GP version, you can uncheck it and click the big blue RUN button to direct download YouTube video in 3GP format without conversion. Otherwise, freely choose one and convert later.

YouTube-mp3.org goes into a big crisis at the beginning of 2016 October, which was sued by music labels, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Bros, Sony Music and others for copyright infringement. Although YouTube mp3 announced it is legal to download YouTube contents in German and there is no violation of YouTube Terms of Service for nonuse of YouTube API, this biggest YouTube ripping service faces shutdown due to the lawsuit. Till now (the third week of October), YouTube mp3 still gives a maintenance message not allowing users to download and convert YouTube videos. When will YouTube mp3 recover or is it down forever? Nobody knows. But here, we would like to tell you how to fix YouTube mp3 not working issues.

YouTube mp3 not Working Troubleshooting

Apart from present legal issue which probably causes YouTube mp3 not working problem, we find this service had experienced “won’t download/convert” error several times before.

Questions from Yahoo Answers:
“So everytime I paste my link in and click convert it re loads the page but won’t let me download it as there’s no option anymore.”
“Why won’t youtube-mp3.org download full song. It only downloads 3:10 of a 4:27 song.”

To fix those “YouTube mp3 won’t work” issues, we suggest you to get an alternative. What kind of YouTube-mp3.org alternative can we take? And, what’s the best one?

1. Online YouTube to MP3 Converter Sites

Like Youtube-mp3.org, online YouTube to MP3 converter sites offers a pretty convenient solution to download YouTube videos to MP3. Paste the video URL to address bar of the page and click Convert. After the video is converted, click Download button to get MP3 file. Also, some online converters will offer several output formats more than MP3, for example M4A, FLAC, MP4. Top YouTube mp3 alternative sites with well working include clipconverter.cc, youtube2mp3.cc, convert2mp3.net, listentoyoutube.com.

2. YouTube to MP3 Plug-ins for Browsers

While YouTube mp3 not working, try to install YouTube to MP3 plug-ins for browsers. Simply open your browser and turn to add-ons or extensions page. Input the keywords “YouTube to MP3” to load results. You can make a decision according to top-rated list or users’ reviews. Also, the following introduced extensions are for your reference: Easy YouTube Video Downloader, YouTube Mp3 Converter, MP3 Downloader.

3. YouTube to MP3 Downloader for Desktop

Lots of YouTube to MP3 downloader desktop software swarm into the market aiming at offering users a solid and easy solution to convert YouTube videos to MP3. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is highly-recommended one which is not only available to change video format but download and convert online (YouTube) videos to various audios, videos including MP3, FLAC, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP4, AVI, FLV, MOV etc, while keeping original quality. Thanks to advanced technologies, Hyper-threading Tech, Multi-core and Hardware Encoder, it can deliver No.1 fast speed to convert YouTube videos to MP3.

Conclusion:
All above types of YouTube to MP3 tools can help us escape from YouTube mp3 not working problem but desktop software is recognized as the best Youtube-mp3.org alternative for reasons as below:
• Online video converters and browser add-ons are not so stable. Even the recommended sites and plug-ins had been reported not working unexpectedly once.
• Security problem of online video converters and browser add-ons exist all the time. Although some are verified as no threats but pop-ups and on-site ads always bother user.

YouTube embeds a fullscreen option delivering a better view experience to watch HD videos on computer. Frequently, it works well on browsers while sometimes YouTube won’t go fullscreen. For example:

“When I click YouTube fullscreen button, it only fills my chrome browser window, whereas it used to actually go full screen. I haven’t changed anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!”

Tips to Solve YouTube Fullscreen Not Working/Won’t Go Full Issue

There are multiple reasons, browsers, plug-ins, flash players or unknown errors which may result in fullscreen not working of YouTube videos. Here, we roundup most common solutions to solve YouTube videos not going fullscreen problem.

1. Update Browser & Flash Player to Latest Version

No matter which browser you use right now, we suggest you to update it to the latest version with the support of HTML5 player to avoid fullscreen problem when playing HTML5 video on YouTube. You can open https://www.youtube.com/html5 to confirm that “HTMLVideoElement” and “The HML5 player is currently used when possible” options are checked.

Apart from browsers, Flash Player may cause various YouTube playback problems as well. It’s better to keep Flash Player for Chrome, Firefox and other browsers up-to-date. Visit https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and follow instruction to download and install the newest Flash Player version. After all is done, please restart your browser and play YouTube videos in fullscreen mode again.

2. Disable Browser Extension

You may install several extensions for browsers to achieve some tasks, for example AdBlock to remove YouTube ads, Video DownloaderHelper to save YouTube videos, or YouTube to MP3 plug-ins. All those tools probably cause YouTube fullscreen not working problem. Disable them or all your installed extensions.

Input “Chrome:extensions” on address bar for Chrome or “about:addons” for FireFox. Hit enter to get full lists of plug-ins. Uncheck “Enable” for Chrome or click “Disable” for Firefox to eliminate their interruptions on YouTube video fullscreen playback.

3. Download YouTube Videos

If you have tried the above two ways but YouTube fullscreen is still not working, we can suppose that fullscreen is disabled for a YouTube video (especially embedded ones on other sites) by owner. Therefore, the best way to make any YouTube video play in fullscreen is to download YouTube videos to computer or devices and use a video player to reach fullscreen playback.